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DATES TO REMEMBER

April

1 - Shooting Sports Practice 2:00p.m. at Woodman of the World Range

3 - Deadline to turn in photos for the District Photography Contest

4 - Horse Quiz Bowl Meeting and Practice 6:00p.m. at Brookesmith ISD

9 - Livestock Judging Meeting 6:00p.m. at Extension Office

9 - Deadline to order State Fair Lamb & Goats Tags

10 - Brownwood 4-H Club Meeting 6:30p.m. at Extension Office

10 - Early 4-H Club Meeting 6:15p.m. at Early First Baptist Church

15 - Shooting Sports Practice 2:00p.m. at Woodman of the World Range

16 - Brookesmith 4-H Club Meeting 5:30p.m. at Brookesmith ISD

16 - Deadline to order State Steer Tags

17 - 4-H Rabbit Club Meeting 7:00p.m. at Extension Office

Howard Payne University held its fifth annual Currie-Strickland Distinguished Lectures in Christian Ethics this week, with speakers addressing the topic “Faith and Politics: Being Prophetic Without Being Partisan.”

Guest lecturers included Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance and pastor of preaching and worship at Northminster Church in Monroe, La.; Suzii Paynter, director of the Advocacy and Care Center and of the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT); and Stephen Reeves, legislative counsel for the Christian Life Commission of the BGCT.

While most of the crowd at the third annual Empty Bowls Project hit around lunch time, a steady stream of diners throughout the day brought the most attendance of all three years and raised a record $16,091, almost three times what was raised last year!

Youth from Milton Avenue Baptist Church will be holding a bake sale fundraiser on Saturday, March 31st in front of Hibbett's Sporting Goods at Commerce Square in Brownwood from 9:00am until 2:00pm.

According to organizers, funds raised will help fund the cost of a youth trip and concert on April 6-7.

Howard Payne University will host Resurrection Week, the university’s annual spring revival, April 2-4. The featured speaker for the week is Mike Satterfield of Field of Grace Ministries from Alabaster, Alabama. Music will be provided by Roger Cullins, a worship leader and songwriter from Houston. Cullins is a 2003 graduate of HPU.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday at the university’s Mims Auditorium. All services are open to the public.

On Monday at 2:30 p.m., there will be a meet-and-greet time for students to get to know the Resurrection Week team at the “Hub,” HPU’s Baptist Student Ministry office.

After-service fellowships will be held in front of Mims Auditorium on Monday and Tuesday evenings beginning at 8:45 p.m.  Additionally, there will be a prayer meeting for the Resurrection Week services on Sunday, April 1, at 9:00 p.m., in the Bullion Suites of the Mabee University Center.

Striving for as much prayer as possible for the week, students will lead a Prayer Walk around campus Monday-Wednesday at 7 a.m. beginning at Mims Auditorium.

The Howard Payne University Model United Nations team participated in the WorldMUN conference, March 11-15, hosted by Harvard University’s World Model United Nations team in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“The opportunity to participate in the Harvard World MUN conference allowed our students to simulate service as international diplomats with more than 2,000 students from some of the world’s leading universities,” said Samuel Greene, assistant professor of political science at HPU. “Our students more than held their own and had some great intercultural experiences along the way.”

Early High School and the Early Police Department held a Shattered Dreams program Thursday afternoon to raise student awareness of the dangers of drinking or texting while driving.

A mock accident scene was viewed by students, parents and faculty in the parking lot of the football stadium which consisted of a two-car head-on collision caused by a drunk driver and a 3rd car whose driver is texting and hits the accident that has already occurred.  The result of the staged accident was where one fatality at the scene occurred and one patient was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Community effort and community support is helping make the 2012 Good Samaritan Ministries Empty Bowls Project a success and is helping to make a difference to the hungry in Brownwood and across the world. The event runs until 7pm Thursday night at the Brownwood Coliseum and all funds raised go directly to the hungry, 90% is kept locally and the other 10% is tithed to a world hunger organization.

At lunch, hundreds of people came to participate in the program, admire and pick out hand painted bowls and enjoy soup donated by local restaurants. The bowls were then taken home to be a symbol of the many people facing empty bowls and the reality of hunger. Live music was enjoyed as participants dined.

Members of Howard Payne University’s Moot Court team received the highest rankings at a recent tournament at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Jake Aschmutat, a senior from Corpus Christi, and Charity Chambers, a junior from Derby, Kan., were named the Tournament Champions after defeating teams from Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas in the semifinal and final rounds of the tournament.